books != movies

Someone I know made a pretty wise point the other day in response to the BLM/Sanders disruption. Single-issue activism has dominated the young left for the last 3+ decades, a time in which the right has dominated on economic policy and the judiciary and (less successfully) tried to do the same on domestic policy and…

I'm curious which Republican presidential candidate you'd consider less evil?

I'm annoyed by what I see as the narcissism and sanctimony of millenials and Gen Z, even though I understand that this is just "my lawn, get off it" thinking, and that I undoubtedly sounded equally annoying in my early 20s.

Probably the wrong article to read while recovering from a vasectomy. Ooof.

I think writing is like Maslow's hierarchy of need. Symbolism is the very top of the pyramid, sitting on top of plot and character and setting and style.

Ani specifically says she owes it to Velcoro's sons (plural). It's clearly his baby.

I like Barney well enough, and the first 13 years of New Order were outstanding. But they were great despite Bernard's lyrics and singing, not because of them.

Cast him in the final season of Downton Abbey, and have it just be Eigmann brutally insulting every single character.

This movie was a classic VHS cover bait-and-switch. The cover was a
still from the (very chaste) strip poker scene, which was all of 8
seconds in the movie. Anyone looking for a movie about young upper-class
New York debauchery would have been confused 5 minutes into it, and
seething at the end. [Not that this was…

If you live in major city or college town, head down to where the 18-35 year olds wander around in their Halloween costumes.

It is 2035. Adam Sandler is 70 years old. He is starring in a movie he co-wrote and produced. His character is a slightly off-beat slacker who needs to learn to grow up. His character indeed learns this lesson in the 3rd act, and he finds love with a beautiful woman.

I'm sure the plot has a super airtight explanation for why the POTUS's plan to save the world mostly involves the president's buddy from high school, who is an established fuckup.

It's honestly one of my favorite movies from the '60s. It could only be made at that time.

I remember thinking that the multiple-agent-Smiths fight scene in The Matrix Reloaded where Neo spins around and knocks them all over the goddamn place looked a poorly rendered video game cut scene while watching it in the theater on opening weekend. I was, admittedly, high as a kite on a pot brownie, and even that…

That's…insane.

I think explaining the emotional or thematic purpose of a scene to an actor qualifies as "directing."

Ok.

Everything about a new Woody Allen movie seems so rote now, even the criticism. And I've defended Wes Anderson here from people that complain that he's making the same movie over and over again. I can deal with artists having their turf, but I can't deal with the lack of passion and care behind these movies.

It's not true that Kubrick never directed his actors.